Being wise Quote by Jane Austen

“She wasn't blindly waiting for some fairy tale; she was just smart enough to believe that she deserved it.”

— Lauren Layne

“And therein lay the crux of her problem. She didn’t trust God to direct her steps. When trouble loomed, she altered her course, convincing…

— Karen Witemeyer

She tended to be impatient with that sort of intellectual who, for all his brilliance, has never been able to arrive at the simple…

— Carolyn Kizer

Something in her brain that still remained calm told her that she was doing a very foolish thing indeed.

— Jean Rhys

She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.

— George Orwell

Holy, fair, and wise is she; The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be.

— William Shakespeare

... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was…

— Anne Perry

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

— Jane Austen

“The old sorceress was not given to berating herself herself, but she could not help but think she had made a mistake. Possibly the…

— Vivian French

I always had the sense with her that she didn't suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show her how.

— Lorrie Moore

Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.

— Donna Woolfolk Cross

“She made a choice that day never to disregard the fact that people need to do things sometimes that others may not understand—and that…

— Patricia Strefling